Illustration of a neutron star emitting a flash of radio waves
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Mysterious flashes of radio waves from area is likely to be brought on by interstellar asteroids and comets crashing into neutron stars.
Astronomers detected the primary quick radio burst (FRB) in 2007, and several other thousand have since been discovered. They’re thought to come back from neutron stars, the ultra-dense cores left behind after some stars explode as supernovae, however precisely what causes them is unclear.
The favoured rationalization for FRBs is that they…
